The Value of Demi-Godhood

I have joined this forum february 2002 out of curiousity and have stayed on ever since then.
As you all can see I am far from the club of highly celebrated top posters who have postings in the thousands and even still far from the honorable group of "Avatar" owners.

I wouldn't even have the technical knowledge how to make one

Nevertheless I am daily on this forum reading about the newest info and rumors, enjoying (mostly) the fun on the community discussion and once in a while getting some help from other posters and to my own surprise have even been able to help a few others with minor problems they had with their mac's.

I have bought 2 mugs (they still have to arrive here)

One that could breake on the way here if I'm unlucky and gives arn some help and the other made of steel to be sure I have one standing besides my mac.

I can buy mugs here for less then what I paid (although not macrumors mugs).

The reason why I bought this mugs is not to become a demi-god but simply because I feel its the decent thing to do since most things in this world cost money and so does running and maintaining this website.

I spend enough time here to consider it to be a good investment

I have seen many members here who have not many postings (yet) but their postings are many times more interresting then some of the top posters.

They have a lot of knowledge and good contributions to this forums and it is this type of members I would like to encourage to do their part to keep this forum running and pay their share, not to be blessed with "demi-godhood" (thats just a fringe benefit) but because their contribution (money and otherwise) will be valuable and appreciated

i'm not sure it matters if it comes from those with "few but good" posts or not. because i think that even those with many but bad (probably plenty of people would toss me in that category)... they get as much or more out of the site. the mac side and the community side.

i read all the mac side stuff, and comment when i can make a useful post. otherwise i'm pretty community bound in the bulk of my posts. that said, i have gained a lot from the page, whether it be rumors or just fun nights joking around.

so i contributed as soon as i could.

and i urge others to do the same. as resm said, not for "demi-god" status or anything. but cause if you get anything out of this site, then it's worth pitching in to keep it going strong, and get even stronger (xserve- ha!)

for people that come here everyday....how many hors a month are you at this site?

If its more then six I say it's worth paying....for the same reason I did. It's the same amount of money as 3 movies. I get far more then this much time worth of entertainment, or fun, or stupidity, or whatever you want to get out of it. I learn, help (I hope), and joke around.

the cost of maintaining a website, besides time is money. I felt it was the least I could do to help out...I just want to keep this place up and running so I can get my daily mac rumor fix.

I was probably the 3rd or 4th person to donate to the macrumors cause. I spend about 14 hours a day at a computer, not to mention that I'm on dsl connections both at work & home, so I naturally spend a lot of time on this site.

I've made a bunch of what I consider to be friends here. I'm helping organize a meeting of the geeks here in New Orleans also, and I now have people I can see in select cities all across the U.S.

I know many of my posts are far from holding real significance, but for the most part it's all fun for me. I got involved enough that I was asked to become a moderator to help out a little, so I have more reason for being here than just upping my post count, which seems to be a widely discussed topic around here.

Originally posted by teabgs for people that come here everyday....how many hors a month are you at this site?

If its more then six I say it's worth paying....for the same reason I did. It's the same amount of money as 3 movies. I get far more then this much time worth of entertainment, or fun, or stupidity, or whatever you want to get out of it. I learn, help (I hope), and joke around.

the cost of maintaining a website, besides time is money. I felt it was the least I could do to help out...I just want to keep this place up and running so I can get my daily mac rumor fix.

Click to expand...

i like your movie analogy, but the reason i joined was to support the site, i usually spend 3-4 hours on it a day! the site deserves a little suport in my oppinion, but for those of you who feel that they arnt ready to contribute thats cool too, you are contributing with your posts, not financally but it is still a contribution. and those who go out of your way to help others with computer problems, thats great too. this is the only site i know of that you can look at rumors about your fav computer company, and then go and join other disucssions with people who share the same intrests.
Long Live MacRumors
-royal

Have any of you noticed the only people who have posted in this thread are Demi-Gods? Don't you guys feel that you are squeezing the rest of the community out? There should be a special section for non-Demi-Gods

From all this talk about "demi-Gods" we may scare away newbies and "not so often posters" because they may start to feel isolated and getting the impression that only as demi-gods with thousand of postings they will be recognised here

And that will kill this forum because in order to keep this forum interesting we need constantly new blood who can give new inputs.

Macmaniac~ if you contact arn via pm, then no doubt you would be able to work something out. He'll be more than happy to help you, i'm sure.

I think this thread is probably a good example of what people have been complaining about. It started out with an honourable purpose, and quickly degenerated into nothing much. That was a decent post from resm; i'd not be complaining if we had more like it. (before anyone complains, i've been as culpable as the next person, and am not pointing fingers at anyone)

I have seen many interesting postings and witty dialogues (I'm a sucker for good scripts ) from people like AlphaTech...Alemon..Beej..britboy..Dukestreet..eyelikeart..jelloshotsrule..teabgs.. and many others (please excuse me if I don't/can't mention all 5319 members) sometimes even just ranting ahead...thats ok.

The only time it gets trivial for me when I enter a thread and on page 1 I see 2-3 people having a personal off topic dialogue and on page 2 the same and on page 3...... thats when I step out.

We should give people a chance to enter a conversation based on the topic, if they like to do so.

MacRumors attracts a broad audience
of both consumers and professionals interested in
the latest technologies and products. We also boast an active community focused on
purchasing decisions and technical aspects of the iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Mac platforms.